School officials wonder if they could have done more to protect students from an angry Shaun Harrison

"Rev" Groover (google financial scandal with his church money) Head of Boston School Committee brought Carol Johnson (under FBI investigation for financial fraud) to Boston. Later Groover said he did not know of the FBI investigation of her. Supt. Johnson places into administration positions drug/cocaine dealers, wife abusers (her family member that was rarly present at his HS because she was sending him to superintendent school) whom she was exposed in the press as lying when she repeatedly said she did not know of their "trespasses". She told wife abuser after the police called her, "You can keep your job as long as the press does not find out." Rev. Groover comes to the rescue with a highly staged scene at AME and spins the story and says basically she is sorry and no one is perfect. BPS administration and support staff were sent memos "inviting" them to the "service". If you look at the footage, you can see that most are not happy to be there and in fact those who did not want to support her went in fear of loosing her "trust" ( a characteristic criticized of her leadership style from a school committee member in her previous district - she did not surround herself with the best qualified candidates; rather those that she could "trust"). Now, Rev. Harrison, agrees to keep quiet about his son's abuse and for good behavior he is given a job in BPS by his friend Rev. Groover (they both preached at AME) and churchgoer Supt. Johnson. He pushes students, throws things at them, asks for thier numbers, yells, uses profanity; not such an annommoly in BPS administrative and support staff. One school calls for him to be fired and shockingly the response is NO. They dont' know he's connected and he will never be fired as long as he does not do anything extreme, like try to kill someone! So he is moved, repeats the behavior, moved, repeats, and then..."the press finds out". Ironically, BPS claims that he was about to be fired for ...... the same behaviors that BPS KNEW OF at three previous schools. How could Harrison be the most qualified for the Dean positon at English High School mid-year if he had all these discipline reports (McDonough said he had been appropriately disciplined but it was not terms for termination, but ironically one small incident of speaking unprofessionally to a student NOW was grounds for termination! ?) in his personel file? No one questions Supt. Johnson, under whose admin he was hired and "maintained". When Rev. Groover was questioned he began spinning with his version of "I'm shocked, shocked to know that gambling is going on in this club" response. Immediately he said he was not apart of Harrison's hiring, AME took Harrison's name off their site, and said he had gone on his way a few years ago. When the mayor questioned McDonough he spun the angle that he had bad teachers he could not get rid of; however, he had multiple grounds multiple times when Harrison was a para-professional then dean (!) He never was qualified or credentialed to be teacher, nor it seems, for religious leadership. Just as BPD did not go public with the wife abuser and drug dealers, BPD covered up the multiple calls by citizens to Harrison's apartment not counting on them to keep records of multiple communications to City Hall and BPD. Evans spun that a few calls were received and twice the area was monitored and had nothing to report. They spin and spin to preserve their public reputations and private bank accounts. The bottomline is this child who was shot is a hero. His blessed survival and subsequent testimony (along with video footage) should clean house in BPS, BPD and City Hall (pre-Marty when Harrison and his son were given jobs and protection....until Harrison's son's story of shooting "got in the press"); if not, the spin masters continue and citizens suffer. Mayor Marty Walsh, the fact that you were grazed by a bullet (maybe at the same age as this young man), means that you are in a unique position (in terms of empathy and political power) to do something about this case that will define who you are to Bostonians and beyond. Show your commitment to the citizens of Boston; make the hard choice not the easy one. Be memorable.